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>so now it's confusing! Is it confusing? Or were you able to tell from context what the user meant? I suspect, given the language ability you've displayed here
by intopieces 11y ago
>so now it's confusing!
Is it confusing? Or were you able to tell from context what the user meant? I suspect, given the language ability you've displayed here, that you had no trouble discerning the meaning the user was attempting to convey.
Language is not a series of rules to follow, it's a loose confederecy of conventions we used with each other to get our point across.
- swampthinker 11y agoTo a native speaker, sure. But to a non-native, those words have entirely different meanings to them.
- intopieces 11y agoEntirely different meanings? They seem pretty close to me: If something is loose, it's easy to lose because it's not tightly bound or fitted.